Soccer War
El Salvador-Honduras 1969 Football War
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New Make Soccer Not War Mug Sports $9.99 If you are choosing the better gift. It is for you. This Mug & Pencil-Cup manufactured with the best technology of images. It guarantees the best print colors.This product could be used in your desktop, or to drink. You can use dishwasher and microwave too. If you need some product different that we don’t have at the moment, just contact us to make speciality for you…. |
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New Soccer Global Nuclear War Mug Sports $9.99 If you are choosing the better gift. It is for you. This Mug & Pencil-Cup manufactured with the best technology of images. It guarantees the best print colors.This product could be used in your desktop, or to drink. You can use dishwasher and microwave too. If you need some product different that we don’t have at the moment, just contact us to make speciality for you…. |
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Joyeux Noel (Widescreen) $6.26 Joyeux Noel captures a rare moment of grace from one of the worst wars in the history of mankind, World War I. On Christmas Eve, 1914, as German, French, and Scottish regiments face each other from their respective trenches, a musical call-and-response turns into an impromptu cease-fire, trading chocolates and champagne, playing soccer, and comparing pictures of their wives. But when Christmas end… |
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Switching Goals $4.25 Soccer-playing sibs Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen turn their league upside-down when they switch identities and play on each other’s team in this kickin’ comedy for the whole family. 85 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo; filmographies; theatrical trailer…. |
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Victory [VHS] $1.98 Fans of The Great Escape and The Longest Yard will cheer venerable director John Huston’s rousing 1981 adventure that pits Allied prisoners of war against their German captors in a soccer match. Michael Caine, who starred in Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King, heads an international all-star cast as true-Brit John Colby, a former soccer champion, who heads the rag-tag squad. Max Von Sydow costars … |
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Victory [VHS] $1.96 Fans of The Great Escape and The Longest Yard will cheer venerable director John Huston’s rousing 1981 adventure that pits Allied prisoners of war against their German captors in a soccer match. Michael Caine, who starred in Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King, heads an international all-star cast as true-Brit John Colby, a former soccer champion, who heads the rag-tag squad. Max Von Sydow costars … |
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Invictus $3.19 From director Clint Eastwood, Invictus tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship… |
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Green Street Hooligans $3.03 After getting unjustly expelled from Harvard, an aspiring journalist moves to London to live with his sister and brother-in-law. Quickly, he makes friends with a group of violent soccer fans he encounters. But when he becomes desensitized to their brutal ways, he learns the cost of taking sports fandom to the extreme. Riveting drama stars Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani. AKA: “Green St… |
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Kung Fu Hustle [Blu-ray] $8.49 Stephen Chow co-wrote, directed and stars in this comical martial arts saga set in China in the 1940s. Posing as a member of a ruthless local gang, an inept thief (Chow) tries to run a con on the residents of a run-down housing project. But the jig is up when the tenants turn out to be kung fu experts and the real mobsters show up, landing Chow in the middle of a deadly war of fists and feet. With… |
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Soccer Ball Pinata $10.50 Shoot for the goal! This fun Soccer ball pinata measures approximately 20″ in height. Fill with treats of choice (not included) such as wrapped candies or small soft toys, and hang from a sturdy support with a strong rope. Recommended limit of 2lbs. Pinatas can be used as a decoration, centerpiece or party game!… |
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1923 In Ireland $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Irish Civil War, Timeline of the Irish Civil War, 1923 in Ireland, Irish General Election, 1923, 1922-23 Fai Cup, 1923-24 Fai Cup, 1923 Irish Free State Cup Final. Excerpt: The FAI Cup 192223 was the second edition of Ireland’s premier cup competition, The Football Association of Ireland Challenge Cup or FAI Cup . The tournament began on 6 January 1923 and concluded on 17 March with the final held at Dalymount Park , Dublin . An official attendance of 14,000 people watched Belfast side Alton United of the Falls League defeat Shelbourne 1-0. The Falls League’s affiliation to the FAI , rather than the IFA , allowed the club to compete in the cup. First Round Second Round Semi-finals Final Notes A. From 1923-1936, the FAI Cup was known as the Free State Cup.B. Attendances were calculated using gate receipts which limited their accuracy as a large proportion of people, particularly children, attended football matches in Ireland throughout the 20th century for free by a number of means.C. The FAI applied to join FIFA in 1923 and was admitted as the FAIFS (Football Association of the Irish Free State).D. Fixture abandoned during 2nd half due to bad light. Re-Fixture played on 13 January.References (URLs online) Specific begin{sloppypar item 1. “”The History of Shelbourne F.C. 1895-1996″”. Retrieved 12 June 2007. item 2. “”Northern Irish clubs in the Irish football structure”". Rec.Sport.Soccer… |
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2002 Television Series Debuts $29.5 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 144. Not illustrated. Chapters: Azumanga Daioh, Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, Naruto, Rahxephon, Top Gear, Transformers: Armada, Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar, .Hack//sign, Dead Ringers, Idols, Spooks, Popstars the Rivals, the Forsyte Saga, Still Game, Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Please Teacher!, I’m a Celebrity…get Me Out of Here!, Divergence Eve, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Chobits, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Saturday Night Takeaway, Digimon Frontier, Foyle’s War, the Life of Mammals, Haibane Renmei, Ultimate Force, O Beijo Do Vampiro, Footballers’ Wives, La Academia, Most Haunted, Gravion, Cutting It, Fifth Gear, Tenchi Muyo! Gxp, Look Around You, Wire in the Blood, Serious, Mr. Bean, Mirmo!, Japanorama, Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai, Believe Nothing, Kiddy Grade, Soccer Am’s All-Sports Show, Brainteaser, Monkey Typhoon, Ultimate Muscle, Rebelde Way, I’m a Celebrity…get Me Out of Here!, in It to Win It, Hur Jun, Toad Patrol, City of Men, Viva S Club, Bitag, Celebrity Fit Club, La Mujer de Judas, Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, Mi Gorda Bella, Los Simuladores, Fame Academy, Sahara With Michael Palin, Habang Kapiling Ka, Test the Nation, the Jury, We Are Dating Now, 15 Storeys High, Las González, Bo’ Selecta!, Wild West, Kumkum, Hamtaro, Bituin, Bad Lads Army, Entre El Amor Y El Odio, Pythagoraswitch, My Love Patzzi, Saturday Kitchen, Astitva…ek Prem Kahani, Jamie’s Kitchen, Winter Sonata, the Vault, Trio, Bootleg, Son Amores, Angelina Ballerina, Chi Vuol Essere Milionario?, Survivor, High Hopes, Un Paso Adelante, the Estate Agents, Glass Slippers, True Files, Shafted, La Otra, River City, Las Vías Del Amor, Berlin, Berlin, Speed Racer X, Rescue Me, Strange, My Mvp Valentine, Ri:se, Cavegirl, Wild New World, Escape to the Country, Star Factory, Gata Salvaje, Inside Out, |
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A Kid from the Windy City $35 This book is an autobiography of well-known Chicagoan, trader and sportsman Lee B. Stern who has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1949. Lee is the founder of the Chicago Sting, North American Soccer League champions in 1981 and 1984, and was a past chairman of the N.A.S.L. Executive Committee. He played a major role in bringing the 1984 World Cup to Chicago. He was elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in 2003. Lee has also been an owner director of the Chicago White Sox since 1975, first with the Bill Veeck group, and, in 1981, with Jerry Reinsdorf as a member of the Corporate General Partnership.Lee, in cooperation with Chicago author and publisher Neal Samors, has written a fascinating autobiography that covers a life that began with growing up years on Chicago’s North Side in the Edgewater neighborhood while attending Swift Elementary School and Senn High School. Then, after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corp at the end of World War II, Stern returned to his native city and began a long and distinguished career at the Chicago Board of Trade. Always interested in sports, in 1974 Lee decided to purchase a North American Soccer League franchise and named the team the Chicago Sting. The team won two NASL championships and put soccer on the sports map in Chicago. Then, he got involved as a part owner of the Chicago White Sox, and remains in that role today.He and his wife, Norma, have raised a wonderful family that includes four children and 11 grandchildren. |
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Acclaim Entertainment Games $29.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Mortal Kombat Ii, Mortal Kombat, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Shadow Man, Fur Fighters, World Championship Rugby, Time Commando, Wwf Attitude, Juiced, Wwf Raw, D, Turok: Rage Wars, the Simpsons: Bart Vs. the Space Mutants, Turok: Evolution, Burnout, Wwf War Zone, Demolition Man, Aggressive Inline, Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, Spider-Man/x-Men: Arcade’s Revenge, Vexx, Burnout 2: Point of Impact, Scooby-Doo Mystery, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, Virtual Bart, Bmx Xxx, Legends of Wrestling Ii, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, All-Star Baseball, Re-Volt, Venom/spider-Man: Separation Anxiety, Nfl Quarterback Club ’98, Rc Revenge, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!, Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, Atv Quad Power Racing, Legends of Wrestling, Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16, 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker, Nba Jam 2000, Machines, the Simpsons: Bart Vs. the Juggernauts, Alias, Knight Rider, Wwf in Your House, the Simpsons: Bart Vs. the World, Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story, Trickstyle, Spider-Man: the Animated Series, Constructor, Champions World Class Soccer, Legends of Wrestling, Bart Simpson’s Escape From Camp Deadly, Sx Superstar, Space Jam, Frank Thomas’ Big Hurt Baseball, Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday, Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls, Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs, Nba Jam Extreme, Nhl Breakaway ’98, Itchy |
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African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game $16.95 From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. The Confédération Africaine de Football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. The unfortunate results of this success are the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of the women’s game and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal” continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease. |
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After the Train $15.99 Peter Liebig can’t wait for summer. He’s tired of classrooms, teachers, and the endless lectures about the horrible Nazis. The war has been over for ten years, and besides, his town of Rolfen, West Germany, has moved on nicely. Despite its bombed-out church, it looks just as calm and pretty as ever. There is money to be made at the beach, and there are whole days to spend with Father at his job. And, of course, there’s soccer. Plenty for a thirteen-year-old boy to look forward to. But when Peter stumbles across a letter he was never meant to see, he unravels a troubling secret. Soon he questions everything—the town’s peaceful nature, his parents’ stories about the war, and his own sense of belonging. |
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After the Train $9.99 Peter Liebig can’t wait for summer. He’s tired of classrooms, teachers, and the endless lectures about the horrible Nazis. The war has been over for ten years, and besides, his town of Rolfen, West Germany, has moved on nicely. Despite its bombed-out church, it looks just as calm and pretty as ever. There is money to be made at the beach, and there are whole days to spend with Father at his job. And, of course, there’s soccer. Plenty for a thirteen-year-old boy to look forward to. But when Peter stumbles across a letter he was never meant to see, he unravels a troubling secret. Soon he questions everything—the town’s peaceful nature, his parents’ stories about the war, and his own sense of belonging. |
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Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War $15.99 Simon Kuper,Paperback – First Trade Paper Edition, English-language edition,Pub by Avalon Publishing Group |
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Alan Mullery: The Autobiography $14.95 Alan Mullery’s passion for soccer is matched by a stream of anecdotes about the players that have filled his professional life, including Bobby Moore, Pelé, Johnny Haynes, Jimmy Greaves, and George Best. Here, for the first time, Mullery lets the reader into the secrets he has previously kept hidden—the shame of being sent off for England, the true story behind England’s 1970 World Cup quarter-final defeat, how he sold 1,000 Cup final tickets on the black market, and the bitterness behind the cheers of Spurs’ 1972 UEFA Cup victory. From the war-torn streets of London to the great soccer arenas of the world, the Alan Mullery story is packed with non-stop action, famous characters, and every human emotion. |
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Armenian History and the Question of Genocide $62 This book presents the Turkish position regarding the Armenian claims of genocide during World War I and the continuing debate over this issue. The author illustrates that although genocide is a useful concept to describe such evil events as the Jewish Holocaust in World War II and Rwanda in the 1990s, the term has also been overused, misused, and therefore trivialized by many different groups seeking to demonize their antagonists and win sympathetic approbation for them. This book includes the Armenians in this category because, although as many as 600,000 of them died during World War I, it was neither a premeditated policy perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government nor an event unilaterally implemented without cause. Of course, in no way does this excuse the horrible excesses that were committed. To illustrate this point, this book uses the recent work of the noted French scholar Jacques Semelin, and such long-suppressed Armenian personalities as Hovhannes Katchaznouni (the first prime minister of Armenia after WWI) and K.S. Papazian (an historian), among others. This book also illustrates how today Armenians have sought to politicize and legislate their version of history in parliamentary and other governmental bodies around the world, damning their opponents as genocide deniers and perpetrators of hate speech. The case of the renowned scholar Bernard Lewis is a prime example of this Armenian misuse and distortion of their politicized version of history. This book also analyzes the hypermobilized Armenian lobbying tactics that have achieved considerable success in politicizing their version of history. Among many other issues, this book also analyzes the recent “soccer diplomacy” between Turkey and Armenia, which has led to their signing treaties that will establish diplomatic relations between them and an historical commission to analyze their different versions of history |
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Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism $22 An expert’s guide to the art and craft of making great news photos, every time”Reporting with a camera. Capturing the instant for others. The ‘decisive moment.’ Photojournalism.” —Brian HortonNoted AP photographer and photo editor, Brian Horton takes you beyond the basics of lenses and exposure times to offer a rare, insider’s perspective on the art and craft of photojournalism. While he does provide useful instruction on technical considerations such as picking the right angle and lighting a situation, his main concern is with the less tangible, wholly indispensable elements of content, style, and the creative process. Using more than 100 photographs from the AP archives to illustrate his points, Horton analyzes what constitutes great news photos of every type, including portraits, tableaus, sports shots, battlefield scenes, and more. He offers unique insights into composition and style, along with invaluable advice on how to develop a style of your own. And, in a chapter new to this edition, he explores the pros and cons of digital photography and the latest developments in digital development and processing.In writing The Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism, Brian Horton conducted extensive interviews with other award-winning photojournalists, whose voices echo throughout the book, sharing unforgettable war stories and hard-won insights into what it takes to seek and find memorable news photographs. Brian Horton is Senior Photo Editor for the Associated Press. He is also AP’s LaserPhoto network director. An AP veteran of 30 years’ experience, he has covered the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Triple Crown, the Winter and Summer Olympics, World Cup soccer, the Indianapolis 500, the NBA Finals, and other major sports events. He also has covered news events ranging from the Gulf War to coal mine disasters, presidential campaigns and political conventions.Also Available in the Associated Press |
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Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern Europe Football $18.95 From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers’ bullets, to the crumbling splendor of Budapest’s Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskas and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall of communism. Jonathan Wilson has traveled extensively behind the old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall through the lens of soccer. Where once the state-controlled teams of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency—a sort of communist version of total soccer—to considerable success on the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary’s Golden Squad of the early 1950s; charts the disintegration of the soccer superpower that was the former Yugoslavia; follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement, and Armenian cognac through the Caucasuses; reopens the case of Russia’s greatest soccer player, Eduard Streltsov; and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973. |
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British Expatriate Basketball People: Luol Deng, Tony Dorsey, Ajou Deng, Steve Bucknall, Olu Babalola $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Luol Michael Deng (born April 16, 1985 in Wau, Sudan) is a Sudanese-British professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association’s Chicago Bulls and the Great Britain national basketball team. He plays the small forward position. Deng is a member of the Dinka ethnic group. When he was young, his father Aldo, a member of the Sudanese parliament, moved the family to Egypt to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War. In Egypt, they met former NBA center Manute Bol, another Dinka, who taught Deng’s older brother, Ajou Deng, how to play basketball while also serving as a mentor for Luol himself. When they were granted political asylum, his family emigrated to Brixton South London in England. Deng developed an interest in soccer and basketball, and was invited to join England’s 15-and-under teams in both sports. During this time, he began his career at Brixton Basketball Club. At the age of 13, he played for England’s squad in the European Junior Men’s Qualifying Tournament, averaging 40 points and 14 rebounds. He was named the MVP of the tournament. Next, he led England to the finals of the European Junior National Tournament, where he averaged 34 points and earned another MVP award. At the age of 14, Luol moved to the United States to play basketball at Blair Academy in New Jersey, where one of his teammates was future NBA player Charlie Villanueva. Deng was also named a Tri-Captain at Blair along with Charlie Villanueva . During his senior year, Deng was considered the second most promising high school senior in America after LeBron James. He was named First Team All-America by Parade Magazine and USA Today, and was selected to play in the McDonald’s High School All-America game, but could not play due to a foot i… More: |
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Brooklyn St. Mary’s Celtic Players: Jack Hynes, Rudy Kuntner, Ed Czerkiewicz, James Mcguire, John Nanoski, Joe Martinelli, John Mcewan $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only andcorrect as of 17:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC). National team caps and goals correctas of 7 December 2006.* Appearances (Goals) John Jack or Jackie Hynes is a former U.S.-Scottish soccer forward. He spent over twenty years in the American Soccer League, twice earning league MVP recognition. In 1949, he earned four caps with the U.S. national team. In addition to playing professional soccer, Hynes was a New York City fireman from 1947 to 1975 and served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Hynes emigrated to the United States from Scotland when he was thirteen years old. When he arrived in the U.S., he entered Curtis High School on Staten Island, New York. He played on the Curtis soccer team, spending two seasons as the team captain. However, he did not confine himself to high school soccer, but also played for the professional Brooklyn St. Mary’s Celtic of the American Soccer League (ASL). In 1938, Brooklyn went to the U.S. Open Cup where the team lost the home and away series to Chicago Sparta, 8-0 on aggregate. Hynes came on as a substitute in the game in Chicago. After the Open Cup, Hynes moved to Swedish F.C. which played in the National Soccer League of New York. In 1940, Swedish F.C. won both the league and cup titles. They repeated the cup title in 1941, the same year that Hynes moved back to the ASL where he joined the New York Americans. While Hynes began his career as an amateur, he received a nominal payment for games and in 1939 the president of USSF declared Hynes and fellow Swedish F.C. player, Gene Olaff, to be professionals. Hynes spent only two years with the Americans before joining the U.S. Army’s 80th D… More: |
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Cheats Unlimited presents Xbox 360: The Best of the Best: Classic Reviews, Features and Cheats $2.99 In the summer of 2008, the Cheats Unlimited brand saw an increase in editorial content. Gaming news was joined by lengthy, expertly written reviews and a variety of entertaining, thought provoking and occasionally just downright silly feature articles. What you have in front of you is a collection of reviews celebrating Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console – the 50 highest scoring reviews featured on the Cheats Unlimited site from June 2008 through to March of 2010. Games covered include Ashes Cricket 2009, Assassin’s Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, Borderlands, Burnout Paradise, Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call Of Duty: World At War, Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood, Colin McRae: DIRT, Colin McRae: DiRT 2, Dead Space, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, FIFA 09, FIFA 10, Fight Night Round 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Forza Motorsport 3, Gears Of War 2, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, Guitar Hero: Metallica, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Lego Batman, Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, Need For Speed: Pro Street, Ninja Gaiden 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Quantum Of Solace, Resident Evil 5, Rock Band 2, Saints Row 2, Street Fighter IV, Tales Of Vesperia, The Beatles: Rock Band, The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena, The Saboteur, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Tom Clancy’s HAWX, Trivial Pursuit, Wanted: Weapons Of Fate, Wolfenstein, and WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009. What game will earn the highest score? Just which games did the team deem worthy of the coveted Golden Bosh Game of the Year award in 2008 and 2009? And how can you increase your gamerscore by 10,000 points with ease? All these questions are answered within this highly informative and entertaining book. |
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Club Nacional de Football Managers: Alfio Basile, Luis Cubilla, Adolfo Pedernera, Enrique Fern ndez Viola, Pedro Dellacha, H ctor Scarone $10.84 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfio Basile, Luis Cubilla, Adolfo Pedernera, Enrique Fernández Viola, Pedro Dellacha, Héctor Scarone, Fernando Riera, Héctor Núñez, Oscar Malbernat, Gerardo Pelusso, Santiago Ostolaza, Hugo de León, Juan Mujica. Excerpt: Adolfo Pedernera Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (18 November 1918 – 12 May 1995), born in Avellaneda , Argentina , was a football (soccer) player and coach. Nicknamed “El Maestro” ( “The Master” ), He is still considered by many to be one of the greatest Argentine players of all-time. He was elected the 12th best South american footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2000. Early career As an adolescent, Pedernera displayed talent for football. The first club he joined was Cruceros de la Plata, but he soon joined the professional Club Atlético Huracán. In 1933, he joined the Club Atlético River Plate. In 1935, at the age of 16, he debuted with this club. During his time at River Plate he was part of five Argentine Championship winning squads in 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942 and 1945. With Argentina he won the Copa America 1941 and 1945. The Second World War kept Pedernera away from the game as he could not participate in a World Cup , but afterwards, his career continued to progress. Still with the Club Atlético River Plate, he played with the likes of Ángel Labruna , José Manuel Moreno , Félix Loustau , and Juan Carlos Muñoz . He also collaborated with Hugo Reyes , Antonio El Maestrico Báez, Néstor Rossi , and Alfredo Di Stéfano who he would later be teammates with them for CD Los Millonarios in Colombia , but first, in 1947, he was offered a million pesos to play for Club Atlético Atlanta . Pedernera’s time with the Club |
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Commerce City, Colorado (Images of America Series) $10.13 Among Colorado’s fastest growing cities in the 21st century, Commerce City was settled in the 1850s, located today 8 miles northeast of Denver’s capitol building. Known for hog farms, truck farms, and dairies, as well as refineries and grain elevators, Commerce City was, during World War II, the site of the enormous Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a U.S. Army weapons manufacturing facility. Incorporated in 1952 as Commerce Town, the name was changed to Commerce City in 1962, which adopted home rule in 1970. Commerce City is regionally famous and nationally recognized for parks and recreation, Buffalo Run Golf Course, Mile High Kennel Club (dog racing), and nearby Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. The new Commerce City Civic Center and Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, which is home to pro soccer’s Colorado Rapids, were completed in 2007. Commerce City remains a speedily changing municipality with a diverse cultural mix and generations of residents with strong community roots. |
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Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak $9.99 Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasize his way out of his devastated surroundings with dreams of Wembley and FA Cup glory for his local team, Portsmouth FC. Spartak Moscow, the team he would end up playing for, wasn’t even on his radar. Taught Russian and trained as a spy in the same institution that nurtured the likes of Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, he was posted to Berlin as part of his National Service to listen in on Soviet military communiqués. But, unbeknownst to his seniors, he began mixing with Russian servicemen, mostly through informal kick-abouts, and the passion of these idealistic young men would cultivate his interest in Russian culture, and especially communism, until it blossomed into a full grown love affair. From the shambolic outfit that was the British Communist Party in the 1950s, to Cold War Moscow at its coldest, to his friendship with the Cambridge Five and meetings with Brezhnev and Gregarin, and his eventual debut in front of 50,000 Spartak fans at the Lenin stadium, here is the remarkable true story of the only Englishman to have played—and survived—Russian league soccer; told with grace, humor, and lashings of vodka. |
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Consequences: Don’t Call Me Baby $0.01 Seventeen-year-old Katie is overwhelmed when she lands a job as a nanny for Premier League soccer player Brett Ballentine and his wife Kassie’s kids. Arriving at the Ballentine mansion in London, Katie feels as though she’s living in a magazine. She’s got a whole floor of the house to herself, her own car, and the inside scoop on Britain’s most notorious celebrity couple. But there is a downside. Katie has to learn to keep her mouth shut when it comes to some of Kassie’s strange and desperate behavior. And Brett is like the ice man—he barely acknowledges her. As time goes on the “happy couple” reveal their true colors, and the true state of their volatile marriage. Kassie has a twisted secret, and Brett’s getting too fond of “playing away.” Katie feels like she and the kids are caught in the middle of a war zone, culminating in a shocking revelation about Brett. But while Katie struggles with her predicament, a budding young photographer snaps the picture the tabloids have been waiting for and catapults herself into the limelight. |
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Crescent Star $6.39 Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi commemorates the Holocaust and celebrates Israeli independence, while Moussa mourns on Nakba Day, marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. Their lives are parallel lines: they have everything in common and nothing at all. Each is oblivious to the other’s existence.As Avi and Moussa go about their daily routines in the spring of 2006, they face reminders of the conflict that has dogged the region for the past three generations — the security wall, suicide bombings, police operations, and the looming shadow of war. While navigating this legacy of suspicion and violence, they must decide what their own roles in the stalemate will be. |
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Crescent Star $8.99 Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi commemorates the Holocaust and celebrates Israeli independence, while Moussa mourns on Nakba Day, marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. Their lives are parallel lines: they have everything in common and nothing at all. Each is oblivious to the other’s existence.As Avi and Moussa go about their daily routines in the spring of 2006, they face reminders of the conflict that has dogged the region for the past three generations — the security wall, suicide bombings, police operations, and the looming shadow of war. While navigating this legacy of suspicion and violence, they must decide what their own roles in the stalemate will be. |
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Curious George at the Park Touch-and-Feel (CGTV Board Book) $6.99 There are so many fun things for Curious George to do at the park: see his animal friends, admire the trees and flowers, fly a kite, play soccer, and—his favorite one of all—have a picnic!The varied touch-and-feel materials—which include soft bunny fur, bumpy tree bark, shiny kite material, a rubbery soccer ball, and patterned blanket fabric—help young readers experience and enjoy all that the park has to offer through the curious eyes of everyone’s favorite little monkey.Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city’s famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montmartre for four years. The manuscript for the first Curious George books was one of the few items the Reys carried with them on their bicycles when they escaped from Paris in 1940. Eventually, they made their way to the United States, and Curious George was published in 1941. Curious George has been published in many languages, including French, German, Japanese, Afrikaans, and Norwegian. Additional Curious George books followed, as well as such other favorites as CECILY G. AND THE NINE MONKEYS and FIND THE CONSTELLATIONS. |
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Football (Soccer) Clubs In London $8.5 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charlton Athletic Football Club (also known as The Addicks) is a professional association football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich, England. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the South-East London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic Football Club. The club is based at The Valley, Charlton, where it has played since 1919, apart from one year in Catford, during 192324, and seven years at Crystal Palace and West Ham United between 1985 and 1992. Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921. Since then, they have had four separate periods in the top flight of English football: between 1936 and 1957; 1986 and 1990; 1998 and 1999, and 2000 to 2007. Historically, Charlton’s most successful period was the 1930s, when the club’s highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the league in 1937, and after World War II, when the club reached the FA Cup final twice, winning in 1947. After being relegated from the Championship in 200809, they play in Football League One as of the 200910 season. Charlton Athletic were formed on 9 June 1905 by a group of 15- to 17-year-old boys in an area of Charlton which is no longer residential, near to the present-day site of the Thames Barrier. In the club’s early years its progress was hampered by the nearby presence of Woolwich Arsenal F.C. (now Arsenal), which was one of the largest clubs in the country, and Charlton spent the years before the First World War playing in local leagues. Woolwich Arsenal’s move to North London in 1913 gave Charlton an opportunity to develop, and they became a senior side by joining the Lewisham League. After the war, … More: |
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Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame: Johnny Warren, Charles N. Perkins, Frank Farina, William Walkley, Graham Arnold $25.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johnny Warren, Charles N. Perkins, Frank Farina, William Walkley, Graham Arnold, Robbie Slater, John Kosmina, Australian Football Hall of Fame, David Mitchell, Paul Wade, Eddie Krncevic, Les Murray, Eddie Thomson, James Masters, Alan Edward Davidson, Milan IvanoviÄ?, Ron Smith, Gary Cole, Joe Marston, Adrian Alston, Peter Wilson, Jimmy Rooney, Ron Adair, Ralé RašiÄ?, Zoran MatiÄ?, Frank Arok, Jimmy Mackay, George Keith, Robert Zabica, Manfred Schäfer, Les Scheinflug, Reg Date, Jack Reilly, Harry Williams, Bob Bignall, Doug Utjesenovic, Attila Abonyi, Ernie Campbell, Ray Baartz, Norman Conquest, Ron Lord, Peter Ollerton, George Harris, André Krüger, Allan Maher, John Perin, Bob Telfer. Excerpt: Adrian Alston Adrian Alston (born 6 February 1949 in Preston , England ) is a former football (soccer) forward . Career While playing as an apprentice at his hometown club Preston North End , Alston was offered a chance by South Coast United in Australia and quickly settled in the country. His performances in the 1974 World Cup saw Alston receive offers from a number of clubs in Germany , including Energie Cottbus , Hertha Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt , but instead decided to join Luton Town in The Football League . However Alston spent just one season at Kenilworth Road before Cardiff City manager Jimmy Andrews paid £20,000 to take him to Ninian Park . He scored twice on his debut in a 4-3 win over Chesterfield and later went on to become the first post-war Cardiff player to score a hat-trick in the FA Cup in a 6-2 win over Exeter City . After helping the club win promotion to Division Two , he struggled to reproduce his form the following year and left Cardiff to play in the NASL for Tampa Bay Rowdies . International career |
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Football in Cuba: Cuba National Football Team, Cuban Football Clubs, Cuban Footballers, Football Competitions in Cuba, Football Venues in Cuba $22.07 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Cuba national football team is the national team of Cuba and is controlled by the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba. They were the first Caribbean team to make the World Cup, which they did in 1938. There, they defeated Romania in a replay 2-1 after tying them 3-3. They were then eliminated in the second round by Sweden, 8-0. The Cuban team has not returned to the World Cup since. Football (soccer) is not followed as strongly in Cuba as it is in many other countries, as baseball is the national sport. Cuba finished second in the Caribbean Cup in 1996, 1999 and 2005. Cuba has a long-standing football tradition, although the sport has never been as popular there as baseball, and were early participants in World Cup qualifying. Cuba were given a walkover into the 1938 World Cup and reached the second round by beating Romania. The post-war years were not so kind to Cuban football. They participated in the 1950 qualifiers, but it was not until the 1966 qualifiers that they would again participate. They returned to participation in qualification in the 1978 series, but the 1982 qualifiers represented a significant breakthrough- Cuba reached the final round of qualifying, and were only 2 points short of reaching the 1982 World Cup. In recent years, Cuban football has seen an improvement in fortunes. They reached the Quarter-finals of the 2003 Gold Cup (where they were beaten by the USA) by defeating Canada 2-0 in the Group Stage. During the 2006 World Cup qualifiers Cuba faced Costa Rica and were only eliminated on away goals. They held Costa Rica to a draw in Havana 2-2 and later battled it out for a 1-1 draw in Costa Rica. As well as Cuban athletes in other sports, a number of football players have made the move to the United States in recent year… More: |
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Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup’s Biggest Upset $13.99 In the summer of 1950, a most unlikely group was assembled to represent its country in the first soccer World Cup since World War II. The Americans were outsiders to the sport, the underdogs of the event, a 500-to-1 long shot. But they were also proud and loyal men — to one another, to their communities, and certainly to their country. Facing almost no time to prepare, opponents with superior training, and skepticism from the rest of the world, this ragtag group of unknowns was inspired to a stunning victory over England and one of the most thrilling upsets in the history of sports.Written by critically acclaimed author Geoffrey Douglas, and now a film directed by David Anspaugh (Hoosiers), The Game of Their Lives takes us back to a time before million-dollar contracts and commercial endorsements, and introduces us to the athletes — the Americans — who showed the world just how far a long shot could really go. |
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German American history: Turners, Harmony Society, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Fredericksburg, Texas, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, New Ulm $28.29 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Turners, Harmony Society, Lutheran Church-missouri Synod, Fredericksburg, Texas, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, New Ulm, Minnesota, New Braunfels, Texas, Roxbury, Wisconsin, Muenster, Texas, Over-The-Rhine, Amish, German American, Rockefeller Family, Spring Branch, Houston, Operation Paperclip, Pennsylvania German Language, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Germans in Omaha, Nebraska, Germany Valley, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Ps General Slocum, German Texan, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Forty-Eighters, Texas Hill Country, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Yorkville, Manhattan, German American Internment, Pennsylvania Dutch, Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter, German Palatines, Latin Settlement, Committee on Public Information, German-Americans in the Civil War, German American Bund, Little Germany, Manhattan, Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, L. A. and Adelheid Machemehl House, German-American Steuben Parade, Immaculata Church, German in the United States, Camp Jackson Affair, Peter Hoyle House, St. Michael the Archangel Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), John Birmelin, German American Soccer League, Lincoln Bank Tower, Roberts Cove, Louisiana, Germanna, Temple Adas Israel (Brownsville, Tennessee), Saint Mary’s Catholic Church (Dubuque, Iowa), German Coast, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Klein, Texas, Pabst Theater, Valentin J. Peter, Westliche Post, History of the Germans in Louisville, Hermann Heights Monument, Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Nueces Massacre, National German-American Alliance, Hutterite German, List of German Rocket Scientists in the United States, Texas German, Old St. Mary’s Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), St. Paul Church, German-American Heritage Foundation of the Usa, Rittenhousetown Historic District, St. Rose Church |
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God’s Perfect Scar $9.99 History comes alive in God’s Perfect Scar. A survivor of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising finds himself in Auschwitz, working with a woman prisoner to plan and implement a harrowing mass escape. A former Polish lancer turned airborne trooper turned English instructor at the University of Warsaw finds himself targeted by the Kremlin-controlled secret police. Two brothers find themselves conscripted by a pair of ambitious rulers, each itching to fire the first shot in a war that will ensnare soldiers and nurses from America, Britain, New Zealand and Korea. An American priest, a former World War II chaplain, finds himself playing street soccer in Rome and plotting a rescue in Warsaw. Bullets and shrapnel leave lasting scars – as do polio, treachery and guilt. Painstakingly researched, God’s Perfect Scar is the story of ordinary people swept up in extraordinary, history-changing upheavals, contending with unrelenting stresses and making life-altering choices. During his research, Johnson learned about Aline Gartner, lost in the mists of time and history. In the pages of God’s Perfect Scar, he “brings back to life” this remarkably courageous woman.From Auschwitz to Cracow to Warsaw, London, Moscow, Beijing, Kaesong, Seoul and small town America, God’s Perfect Scar takes readers on a journey that provides a different and broader perspective on major happenings that have been shaping history for the last 60 years. As with Johnson’s earlier works, Warrior Priest and Fate of the Warriors, the pacing in God’s Perfect Scar is brisk, the tension palpable and the outcomes unpredictable. |
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Heartland $1.99 In a richly imagined novel about grassroots politics, soccer, and the far right in a multicultural town, Anthony Cartwright audaciously enters the heartland of post-9/11 BritainIt’s spring of 2002 in the Black Country, and the changes underfoot might prove to be more than the locals can withstand. With local elections looming, a mosque is being built on the site where Cinderheath’s iconic steelworks once centered the town. “The Tipton Three,” from just down the road, are imprisoned in Guantanamo, and the British National Party—the “BNP”—expect to win new seats on the council. Despite it all, the town is getting geared up for the World Cup to begin with England to play Argentina. But first, a controversial Sunday-league game must take place, billed by the press as “a match to spark a race war.” In the middle of the mess is Rob, a former professional soccer player like his famous father. He’s now a teaching assistant, sympathetic to the children of families he knows too well. On the soccer field, as the BNP prowl the touchlines, he finds himself facing Zubair, the brother of his missing best friend, and both men are bound together by the mystery of the disappearance. |
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Heartland $13.95 In a richly imagined novel about grassroots politics, soccer, and the far right in a multicultural town, Anthony Cartwright audaciously enters the heartland of post-9/11 BritainIt’s spring of 2002 in the Black Country, and the changes underfoot might prove to be more than the locals can withstand. With local elections looming, a mosque is being built on the site where Cinderheath’s iconic steelworks once centered the town. “The Tipton Three,” from just down the road, are imprisoned in Guantanamo, and the British National Party—the “BNP”—expect to win new seats on the council. Despite it all, the town is getting geared up for the World Cup to begin with England to play Argentina. But first, a controversial Sunday-league game must take place, billed by the press as “a match to spark a race war.” In the middle of the mess is Rob, a former professional soccer player like his famous father. He’s now a teaching assistant, sympathetic to the children of families he knows too well. On the soccer field, as the BNP prowl the touchlines, he finds himself facing Zubair, the brother of his missing best friend, and both men are bound together by the mystery of the disappearance. |
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High Schools in Norfolk County, Ontario: Holy Trinity Catholic High School, Simcoe Composite School, Valley Heights Secondary School $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Holy Trinity Catholic High School, Simcoe Composite School, Valley Heights Secondary School, Delhi District Secondary School, Sprucedale Secondary School, Waterford District High School, Port Dover Composite School. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Holy Trinity Catholic High School (Simcoe) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holy Trinity has been at the leading edge of technology in Canadian high schools since its opening. The technology department at Holy Trinity consists of Communication, Construction, Cosmetology, Design/Drafting, Swordfighting, Manufacturing, Culinary Arts and Transportation. Some of the cutting-edge technology includes: The secondary school is represented in many different intermural sports as the Holy Trinity Titans. Titan teams include swimming, soccer, rugby, track and field, badminton, tug-o-war, golf, basketball, hockey, tennis, cheerleading, volleyball, cross-country, football and rowing. Holy Trinity did fundraising in the 2006-2007 school year to raise enough money to start a football team for the school. They were successful in their attempt and the team played their first game in September 2007. Holy Trinity Catholic High SchoolHoly Trinity has become so popular since its opening in September 2001 that an addition was built on the South side of the school and was ready for September 2007. The school was built for less than 1000 students and the current enrolment has well exceeded that capacity. The addition consists of ten classrooms added to the southwest corner of the school plus a food services classroom and conference room. The addition was required because the school had overcrowded hallways and twelve portables in September 2006. John Burroughs, the principal, expects that enrolment will peak in the next few y… More: |
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Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood $2.99 In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West–fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II. Known in some circles as a Mormon Hemingway, Thayer has created a richly detailed work that shares cultural DNA with Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes,” Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies.” His narrative at once prosaic and poetic, Thayer captures nostalgia for a simpler time, along with boyhood’s universal yearnings, pleasures, and mysteries. |
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Imperium $2.4 Between 1989 and 1991, the acclaimed author of The Soccer War traveled 40,000 miles throughout the rapidly fragmenting Soviet Union. Kapuscinski weaves the personal and historical account into one galvanizing narrative as he describes the collapse of an empire and its profound toll on the land and its people. |
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Jeu Wii $111.12 Ce contenu est une compilation d’articles de l’encyclopédie libre Wikipedia. Pages: 1089. Non illustré. Chapitres: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Liste de Jeux Wii, Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy, the Beatles: Rock Band, Call of Duty: World at War, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Resident Evil 4, Mario Kart Wii, Agatha Christie : Devinez Qui ?, the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Spore, Little King’s Story, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Street Fighter Ii: the World Warrior, Need for Speed: Carbon, S.o.s. Fantômes le Jeu Vidéo, Sonic Unleashed : La Malédiction Du Hérisson, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, No More Heroes, Fifa 10, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Wwe Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008: Ecw Invasion, Crash : Génération Mutant, le Parrain, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, Pikmin, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Battalion Wars 2, Astérix Aux Jeux Olympiques, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dj Hero, Tomb Raider: Underworld, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Fifa 09, Call of Duty 3 : En Marche Vers Paris, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Manhunt 2, Wii Sports Resort, Ōkami, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, de Blob, Fifa 08, Need for Speed: Undercover, Boom Blox, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Les Simpson, le Jeu, Guitar Hero Iii: Legends of Rock, Final Fantasy Iv : Les Années Suivantes, Metroid Prime Trilogy, the House of the Dead: Overkill, Boom Blox Smash Party, Guitar Hero 5, Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, Boogie, Madworld, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Sam and Max : Au-Delà Du Temps et de L’espace, the Conduit, Rayman Prod’ Présente : the Lapins Crétins Show, Wario Land: the Shake Dimension, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Crash of the Titans, Dewy’s |
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Kearny (Images of America Series) $14.81 Since its 1668 purchase by Captain William Sandford, a nine and three-quarter square mile piece of land between the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers, known since 1898 as the Township of Kearny, has been at the crossroads of history. Industry, great estates, Scottish culture, and world-famous soccer teams have peppered Kearny with a rich, but little-known history. For the first time, the vast holdings of the Kearny Museum, the AT&T Archives, and personal postcard and photograph collections are assembled in one place: Kearny. This book, developed in conjunction with the Kearny Museum, brings the little-known history of Kearny to life. More than 200 photographs and author Barbara Krasner’s painstaking research beautifully and eloquently detail the story of the town, known at different times in its past as Mighgecticok, New Barbadoes Neck, Lodi, Harrison, and of course, Kearny. These pages offer a wonderful journey through the “City of Opportunity” and its storied past, full of kilts, bagpipes, copper mines, textile mills, war heroes, and World Cup Champions. |
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Landmarks In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $21.02 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Liberty Bell, Spectrum, Wanamaker Organ, Independence Hall, Aquarama Aquarium Theater of the Sea, List of Sites of Interest in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Zoo, Rocky Steps, Newkirk Viaduct Monument, Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry, St. Mark’s Church, Frankford, Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, Curtis Publishing Company, Betsy Ross House, Frankford Friends Meeting House, Swann Memorial Fountain, Belmont Mansion, Philadelphia Ronald Mcdonald House, Reading Viaduct, Edwin Forrest House, Slate Roof House, Philadelphia Aquarium, Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Strawberry Mansion Bridge, City Tavern. Excerpt: The Spectrum, formerly known as the CoreStates Spectrum (19961998), First Union Spectrum (19982003), and Wachovia Spectrum (since 2003) is a now-closed indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened in the Fall of 1967 as part of what came to be known as the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, it eventually seated 18,136 for basketball and 17,380 for ice hockey, Arena football, indoor soccer, and indoor lacrosse after several expansions of its seating capacity. The building was formally closed on October 31, 2009, after a four-night concert stand by Pearl Jam. It is planned that the arena will eventually be razed to make way for a hotel in the Philly Live! complex. Opened as “The Spectrum” in fall 1967, Philadelphia’s first modern indoor sports arena was built to be the home of the expansion Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, and also to accommodate the existing Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. The building was the second major sports facility built at the south end of Broad Street in an area previously known as “East League Island Park” and now referred to simply as the “South Philadelphia Sports … More: |
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Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo M. Spinelli $18.9 Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine’s Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp. Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson’s explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards’ combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built. These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war. Mounted as a traveling exhibit by the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, 92 of these photographs are currently on display at the Italian American Museum in New York City. |
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Liquid City, Volume 2 $10.5 Liquid City Volume 2 once again brings together creators from Southeast Asia to offer an amazing diversity of stories. From Lat’s vignette of a soccer game in Malaysia and Ivan Song’s poignant, near-future tale of childhood memories, to Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thanh Phong’s account of his adventures in South Korea, this collection showcases an incredible variety of styles and genres. War, fantasy, drama, road trips, and Robot Rabbits – you’ll find it all and more in Liquid City Volume 2. |
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Manolo, recuerdas? $13.38 Three generations of the working class Altés family live through the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and the Franco dictatorship in this memoir that never ceases to be intensely personal as it makes keen social observations. Living in Barcelona during the most radically changing period in modern Spanish history, the Altés family members constantly struggle to maintain their nostalgic memories of bull running, soccer games, boxing matches, and shared glasses of vermouth on Sundays—images that the powerful tide of fascism is swiftly sweeping away.  La vida de tres generaciones de la familia Altés, de clase trabajadora que viven la época de la Gran Depresión, la Guerra Civil española y la dictadura de Franco está recogida en estas memorias, de marcado carácter personal y con agudas observaciones sobre la sociedad del momento. Viviendo en Barcelona durante el periodo de cambio más radical en la historia moderna de España, los miembros de la familia Altés luchan constantemente para mantener sus nostálgicos recuerdos: corridas de toros, partidos de fútbol, combates de boxeo y los aperitivos con vermú de los domingos – imágenes que la poderosa marea del fascismo está haciendo desaparecer rápidamente. |
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Match Day Football Programmes: Post-War to Premiership $55 This collection of covers of official UK football programs–in American, that’s soccer programs–includes every league club active from the end of World War II to the start of the Premiership (1992), which comes to more than 100 teams from across the United Kingdom. It covers the golden age of British football, a time of local pride and growing success, of “Roy of the Rovers” good feeling, all of which is reflected in period designs, colorful graphics and charming illustrations, far from the glossy corporate memorabilia that fans accumulate today. These pieces are rare and highly collectible, and the majority are reproduced in this book for the first time, but more importantly for most readers, they offer an armchair anthropologist’s trip through 1960s, 70s and 80s England. By Bob Stanley, who worked as a freelance music writer with NME and Melody Maker before forming the group Saint Etienne, and with an introduction by Brian Glanville, a highly regarded sports writer and a leading authority on British soccer. |
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My Story: Thirty Miles from Paradise $15.95 One of Britain’s greatest ever soccer players, Bobby Lennox epitomizes an era in which Celtic were the best and most successful soccer club in the U.K. In May 1967, he and his fellow Lisbon Lions achieved soccer immortality when they lifted the European Cup—the first British side to do so. Lennox’s 300 goals for Celtic and Scotland make him the second-highest goalscorer in Celtic’s history and the highest since World War II. With the Scottish national side, Lennox famously scored the second goal in Scotland’s stunning 3-2 victory over England at Wembley in 1967, when the Scots became the first country to defeat the then world champions. In this definitive autobiography, Lennox recounts with his famous dry wit and openness his part in these extraordinary achievements, revealing aspects of his career which, until now, he has never previously made public. |
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Not in Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You $10.99 Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young American soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seemingly normal family determines that they are in fact elves. National bestselling author and award-winning religion reporter Christine Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her hunt to find what’s authentic and what’s not in America’s burgeoning magical reality. From the voodoo temples of New Orleans to the witches’ covens of Salem to a graveyard in north Florida, Wicker probes the secrets of an underground society and teaches lessons she never dreamed could be taught. What she learns repels her, challenges her, and changes her in ways she never could have imagined. And if you let it, it might change you, too. |
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Not in Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You $13.95 Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young American soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seemingly normal family determines that they are in fact elves. National bestselling author and award-winning religion reporter Christine Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her hunt to find what’s authentic and what’s not in America’s burgeoning magical reality. From the voodoo temples of New Orleans to the witches’ covens of Salem to a graveyard in north Florida, Wicker probes the secrets of an underground society and teaches lessons she never dreamed could be taught. What she learns repels her, challenges her, and changes her in ways she never could have imagined. And if you let it, it might change you, too. |
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Offenbach Am Main $14.14 Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, located on southside of the river Main. In 2006 it had a population of 116,923. The city is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan area. Offenbach was a center of the leather industry, which has however declined in the last decades. It is still the seat of the Deutsches Leder Museum (German Leather Museum), and also of the international leather fair. The 120-meter high “City-Tower”.The first documented reference to Offenbach appears in 977. In 1486 the Isenburg Family took control of city, and 1556 Count Reinhard of Isenburg relocated his Residence to Offenbach, building a palace, the Isenburger Schloß, which was completed in 1559. It was destroyed by fire in 1564 and rebuilt in 1578. In the mid 1600s Offenbach passed into the possession of the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt who ruled it until 1815 when the Congress of Vienna gave the city to the Austrian Emperor, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. A year later it was returned to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. The city was ruled by Grand Dukes of Hesse and by Rhine until the monarchy was abolished in 1918. During the Second World War a third of the city was destroyed by Allied bombing which claimed 467 lives. With the new district Lauterborn the city was expanded to south in the 1960s. Offenbach is also the seat of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service) and home to the soccer club “Kickers Offenbach” and their stadium “Bieberer Berg”. Offenbach is on the Rhine-Main S-Bahn with six stations: Offenbach-Kaiserlei, Offenbach-Ledermuseum, Offenbach-Marktplatz, Offenbach-Ost, Offenbach-Bieber, Bieber-Waldhof. S-Bahn station: MarktplatzUntil the early 1970s Offenbach was dominated by the machine-building and leather industries. The city hosts the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies to this day. Offenbach was also the European center of |
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town $15.79 The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges.This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world. |
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town $13.99 The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges.This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world. |
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Pelé $15.11 Think you know all there is to know about Pelé Well, did you know that: • Pelé played in his first World Cup tournament at the age of seventeen • In 1967, both sides in Nigeria’s civil war called a 48-hour cease-fire so Pelé could play an exhibition match in the capital of Lagos • Pelé has scored more than 1,200 goals in his professional career Born into poverty in Três Corações, Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento (aka Pelé) fell in love with soccer at a young age. When he was ten, Pelé and some friends started a soccer team. A year later, a coach took notice of his talent and began to train him. By the time he was just fifteen, Pelé had joined a professional team. This was the beginning of a long career in which Pelé led Brazil to victory in three World Cup tournaments. Pelé became an international celebrity whose name was synonymous with soccer. His fame allowed him to raise awareness of his beloved game around the world. |
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People From Jefferson County, Colorado $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Troy Eid, George G. Wortman, Nick Fazekas, Sue Schafer, Scott Gaylord, Todd Dunivant, Bill Sedgewick, Marian Dalmy. Excerpt: Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) end{sloppypar William “Bill” Sedgewick (born 11 February 1971 in Wheat Ridge , Colorado ) is an retired American professional soccer player who played both indoors and outdoors.Biography Sedgewick attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City , graduating in 1994 with a degree in business finance. Career Sedgewick played for the Edmonton Drillers between 1996 and 1997, and began his professional outdoor career in 1997 with the Montreal Impact , and spent two seasons there before moving to the Rochester Rhinos in 1999. He returned to the Impact in 2006 for one season, on loan from the California Cougars . Sedgwick signed for the Orlando Sharks during the 2006 season, and signed for the Detroit Ignition in March 2008. Coaching career On 04 January 2010 was named as the new Assistant coach of Rochester Rhinos , he works under Head Coach Bob Lilley .References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at George G. Wortman (August 15, 1841 May 19, 1913) was a 19th century Canadian-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars . During Colonel Thomas L. Crittenden ‘s campaign against the Apache Indians , Wortman served as a sergeant with the 8th U.S. Cavalry and participated in several notable engagements during the conflict. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Arizona Territory during the summer of 1868. Biography Early life and military service George G. Wortman was born in Moncton, New Brunswick , Canada on August 15, 1841. He worked as a civilian |
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People from Pontypool: David Phillips Jones, James Phillips Jones, Jack Jones, Hubert Day, Sean Moore, Luke Evans, Jennifer Daniel $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: David Phillips Jones more commonly known as ‘Ponty’ Jones (10 December 1881 9 January 1936) was a Welsh international rugby union wing player who played club rugby for several teams, most notably Pontypool and London Welsh. He won a single cap for Wales in 1907. Jones was a mining surveyor by profession, and was also a classically trained harpist. A keen sportsman, he also played soccer and once had a Welsh amateur trial. During the First World War he joined the British Army and served in the South Wales Borderers. He died of pneumonia in 1936. Jones was one of four rugby playing brothers; Jack and James were capped for Wales like David, while the youngest brother Edwin played for club team, Pontypool. As the brothers had the common surname of Jones, the brothers were separated by their nicknames. James was more often known as ‘Tuan’ and David as ‘Ponty’. Jones first played rugby for his home town of Pontymoile, before being selected for first-class rugby club, Newport. He played only 11 games for the Newport senior team before joining the newly reformed Pontypool club, making his debut for the club on 7 December 1901 in a match against Ebbw Vale RFC. Jones’ career at Pontypool was extremely succussful, becoming a leading scorer over several seasons including 172 tries over his entire career. Such was Jones’ scoring record, that the left wing corner pointing to Conway Road at Pontypool’s Recreation ground, was nicknamed ‘Ponty’s Corner’. In the 1904-05 season, Jones scored 49 tries, which included six in the same game against Talywain in April 1905; a club record that stood for 98 years. Jones was made captain of Pontypool for three consecutive seasons, from 1904 to 1907; and in 1907 he was awarded his one and only internat… More: |
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Phoenix $14.3 It’s been nearly half a year since Benjamina James was given her powers as a Guardian of the Light and began training for a war against the evil that hides in the shadows. As Bennie reels from the recent tragedies and revelations, she finds being a teenage girl with superpowers is the least of her bothers. On top of training with new Guardians, surviving the tenth grade, and preparing for soccer season again, Bennie finds a relationship building with her long time crush. All the while, Reyortsed is fighting to find a way into Pelanca, the heart of the Guardian Universe. Bennie and her friends return, along with many new faces, in this long-awaited sequel to Shadowchild, winner of the Pearson Prize for Fiction, 2010. |
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Playstation-Portable-Spiel $69.34 Kapitel: Tomb Raider, Lemmings, Worms, Mega Man, Clannad, Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu, Kanon, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, Prince of Persia, X-Men, Yu-Gi-Oh, Mortal Kombat, Silent Hill, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Medievil, Pro Evolution Soccer, Metal Gear, Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx, Air, Harvest Moon, Swat, Radsport Manager Pro, Toradora!, Wipeout, Eureka Seven, Gran Turismo, Street Fighter, Star Wars: Battlefront, Heart No Kuni No Alice – Wonderful Wonder World, Kido Senshi Gundam Seed Destiny, Monster Hunter, Fifa, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, Tomb Raider: Legend, Monster Hunter Freedom, Burnout, Breath of Fire, Joust, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Formel Eins, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Popolocrois, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy Vii, Blood Bowl, Out Run, Colin Mcrae Rally, Comic Party, My-Hime, Suikoden, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Cave Story, Spongebob Schwammkopf, Tenchu, Der Pate, Shaun White Snowboarding, Crash Bandicoot, Love Trouble, Colin Mcrae: Dirt, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Tom Clancy’s Endwar, Valkyrie Profile, Train Simulator, Golden Axe, Princess Maker, Wwe Smackdown Vs. Raw 2006, Die Simpsons – Das Spiel, Puyo Puyo, Killzone, Ace Combat X, Taiko No Tatsujin, Test Drive, the Warriors, Ghosts ‘n Goblins, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Virtua Tennis, Locoroco, Dante’s Inferno, Blood+, James Cameron’s Avatar: Das Spiel, This Is Football, Frogger, Viewtiful Joe, Lego Batman: Das Videospiel, Supertux, Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, Super Monkey Ball, Buzz!, Tokobot, Ridge Racer, Work Time Fun, Rahxephon, Skifree, Patapon, Asphalt: Urban Gt, Fight Night, Echochrome, Full Auto. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of action-adventure games, comic books, novels, theme park rides, and movies, centering around the adventures of the fictional female British archaeologist Lara |
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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church $5.99 Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school — especially in religion and literature. He was a star soccer player and also hiked and kayaked. But most of all Karol loved poetry and theater. Although Karol was liked and respected by his peers, his childhood was touched by tragedy. His mother passed away when he was only nine years old, and three years later his beloved older brother, Edmund, died from scarlet fever.Karol grew up in a time of great uncertainty for Poland. Although he was born into an independent Poland, he was a young man during the Nazi occupation of his homeland in World War II. When many Poles were anti-semitic, Karol had Jewish friends; when his country turned its back on religion, Karol studied in secret to become a priest. This fascinating biography details Karol’s childhood and the events that led him to be named Pope John Paul II in 1978. |
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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church $9.99 Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school — especially in religion and literature. He was a star soccer player and also hiked and kayaked. But most of all Karol loved poetry and theater. Although Karol was liked and respected by his peers, his childhood was touched by tragedy. His mother passed away when he was only nine years old, and three years later his beloved older brother, Edmund, died from scarlet fever. Karol grew up in a time of great uncertainty for Poland. Although he was born into an independent Poland, he was a young man during the Nazi occupation of his homeland in World War II. When many Poles were anti-semitic, Karol had Jewish friends; when his country turned its back on religion, Karol studied in secret to become a priest. This fascinating biography details Karol’s childhood and the events that led him to be named Pope John Paul II in 1978. |
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Reapers $6.99 In June, the World Cup means the arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries in southern Africa, particularly Botswana. Meanwhile, fanatics are pushing forward a plan, based on faulty science, to “Orgonise Africa,” which they believe will purify the continent. To the north, Patriarche, a silverback mountain gorilla, must share his habitat with coltan miners led by one of the Congo’s bloody war lords. And Sanderson, Game Ranger in the Chobe National Park, finds a body. Tracking down the murderer leads to evidence of local bribery, smuggling, and finally to what could provoke an international incident. |
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town $12.99 An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist’s correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn’t war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened. There, de Bellaigue found a place in which the centuries-old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive. His government escort began their association by marching with him arm in arm through the town’s shopping district to show his presence; the local police chief, sent by the central office in Ankara to keep an eye on the Kurds, was sure he was a spy. He found houses built from the ruins of old Armenian churches, young boys playing soccer with old skulls, and a cast of villagers who all seemed unwilling to talk. What emerges is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity that brings to life the basic conflictsof the Middle East: between statehood and religion, imperial borders and ethnic identity. Combining a deeply informed view of the area’s history with the testimonials of the townspeople who slowly come to trust him, de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century, |
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town $16 An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist’s correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn’t war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened. There, de Bellaigue found a place in which the centuries-old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive. His government escort began their association by marching with him arm in arm through the town’s shopping district to show his presence; the local police chief, sent by the central office in Ankara to keep an eye on the Kurds, was sure he was a spy. He found houses built from the ruins of old Armenian churches, young boys playing soccer with old skulls, and a cast of villagers who all seemed unwilling to talk. What emerges is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity that brings to life the basic conflictsof the Middle East: between statehood and religion, imperial borders and ethnic identity. Combining a deeply informed view of the area’s history with the testimonials of the townspeople who slowly come to trust him, de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century, |
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Roof Over Love & Lust $3.99 Danny Roarke’s thirty-six year adventure through love and lust is reminiscent of Homer’s Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses. The novel begins when Danny is a college senior during the final year of the radical 1960s. He goes from college student, to professional soccer player haunted by the Vietnam War, to Cornell doctoral candidate enduring several turbulent relationships. Eventually, as a professor he develops a theory of genuine teaching at a small private university in Florida. He defends his most inspired graduate student’s career when she is denied tenure, then both of their careers are sabotaged by two malcontent faculty members. From rebellion in the “free love” Sixties, to reconciliation as his parents age and die, Danny’s journey winds through his friends and extended family of brothers, their wives and children. Named for the Irish song “Danny Boy” and Daniel in the biblical lion’s den, astrological implications develop as he encounters women from every zodiac sign. Danny Roarke travels America, Spain, Mexico and Ireland in search of authenticity and one great love. |
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Sega $23.6 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 331. Not illustrated. Chapters: Sega Pico, Panzer Dragoon, Wave Master, Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, Sega Superstars, Let’s Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice, the Amazing Spider-Man Vs. the Kingpin, the Ocean Hunter, World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Bug!, After Burner, Dreamcast Vga, After Burner Ii, Richard Scarry’s Busytown, the Golden Compass, Dc-Uk, Tails and the Music Maker, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, Kenseiden, Spider-Man: the Video Game, Teddy Boy Blues, Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Cop, Sega Rally 3, Virtua Striker, Confidential Mission, Sega Saturn Magazine, the Spy Who Loved Me, Pole’s Big Adventure, Sega Worldwide Soccer, Sega Racing Studio, After Burner: Black Falcon, Worldwide Soccer: Euro Edition, Virtua Fighter Kids, Sega Classics Arcade Collection, Flesh Feast, Seganet, Virtua Fighter Animation, Simon Jeffery, Psycho Fox, Alex Kidd: High-Tech World, Sonic Pinball Party, Bomber Raid, Sega Rally 2, Alien Front Online, Sonic Eraser, N-Sub, Panzer Dragoon Ii Zwei, Menacer, Taz-Mania, Sega Worldwide Soccer ’97, Sonic Gameworld, Sega Wow, Doki Doki Penguin Land, Astro Warrior, Sega Lock-On, Quartet, Kazuyuki Hoshino, the Cyber Shinobi, Fahrenheit, Sega Meganet, Tommy Lasorda Baseball, Crazy Taxi 2, Planet Harriers, Dreamcast Broadband Adapter, After Burner Iii, List of Sega Audio Studios, Sims Co., Ltd., Ren Hoek and Stimpy: Quest for the Shaven Yak, Monaco Gp, Champion Base Ball, Sonic Classics 3-In-1, Official Dreamcast Magazine, Champion Boxing, Dreameye, Supreme Warrior, Super Columns, Shoichiro Irimajiri, Sega Marine Fishing, Pat Riley Basketball, Snail Maze, Wrestle War, Skitchin’, Exosquad, Sega Game Pack 4 in 1, Safari Hunt, Segata Sanshirō Shinken Yūgi, Desert Speedtrap, Outtrigger, Plane Crazy, Psy-Phi, Dreamarena, Air Rescue, Wacky |
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Shadow of the Sun $11.99 Among his fellow journalists, Ryszard Kapuscinski has earned the reputation of being in all the wrong places at just the right times. “If Kapuscinski was there,” wrote Stephen Schiff enviously, “you knew the pot was about to boil over.” His first landing in tropical Africa was typically momentous: He arrived in 1957, “the great year” in which Ghana’s independence sparked independence movements around the continent. The Polish foreign correspondent has returned to sub-Saharan Africa numerous times, traveling extensively, conscientiously avoiding palace receptions and self-congratulatory ministers. Readers of his Imperium and The Soccer War will expect what others will discover: Kapuscinski’s reportage borders on great literature. |
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Silent Music $17.99 WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him. Gorgeously illustrated with collage, pencil and charcoal drawings and, of course, exquisite calligraphy, this timely and yet universal story celebrates art and history but also offers young children a way to understand all they see and hear on the news. Silent Music is a 2009 Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year. |
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Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce $15 It was one of history’s most powerful—yet forgotten—Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite of orders to the contrary by superiors; it happened in spite of language barriers. And it still stands as the only time in history that peace spontaneously arose from the lower ranks in a major conflict, bubbling up to the officers and temporarily turning sworn enemies into friends. Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas Truce to history. It had been lost in the tide of horror that filled the battlefields of Europe for months and years afterward. Yet in December 1914 the Great War was still young, and the men who suddenly threw down their arms and came together across the front lines—to sing carols, exchange gifts and letters, eat and drink and even play friendly games of soccer—naively hoped that the war would be short-lived, and that they were fraternizing with future friends. It began when German soldiers lit candles on small Christmas trees, and British, French, Belgian and German troops serenaded each other on Christmas Eve. Soon they were gathering and burying the dead, in an age-old custom of truces. But as the power of Christmas grew among them, they broke bread, exchanged addresses and letters and expressed deep admiration for one another. When angry superiors ordered them to recommence the shooting, many men aimed harmlessly high overhead. Sometimes the greatest beauty emerges from deep tragedy. Surely the forgotten Christmas Truce was one of history’s most beautiful moments, made all the more beautiful in light of the carnage that followed it. Stanley Weintraub’s moving re-creation demonstrates that peace can be more fragile than war, but also that ordinary men can bond with one another despite all efforts of politicians and generals to the |
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Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce $16.99 It was one of history’s most powerful—yet forgotten—Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite of orders to the contrary by superiors; it happened in spite of language barriers. And it still stands as the only time in history that peace spontaneously arose from the lower ranks in a major conflict, bubbling up to the officers and temporarily turning sworn enemies into friends. Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas Truce to history. It had been lost in the tide of horror that filled the battlefields of Europe for months and years afterward. Yet in December 1914 the Great War was still young, and the men who suddenly threw down their arms and came together across the front lines—to sing carols, exchange gifts and letters, eat and drink and even play friendly games of soccer—naively hoped that the war would be short-lived, and that they were fraternizing with future friends. It began when German soldiers lit candles on small Christmas trees, and British, French, Belgian and German troops serenaded each other on Christmas Eve. Soon they were gathering and burying the dead, in an age-old custom of truces. But as the power of Christmas grew among them, they broke bread, exchanged addresses and letters and expressed deep admiration for one another. When angry superiors ordered them to recommence the shooting, many men aimed harmlessly high overhead. Sometimes the greatest beauty emerges from deep tragedy. Surely the forgotten Christmas Truce was one of history’s most beautiful moments, made all the more beautiful in light of the carnage that followed it. Stanley Weintraub’s moving re-creation demonstrates that peace can be more fragile than war, but also that ordinary men can bond with one another despite all efforts of politicians and generals to the |
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Soccer in Hawaii: 2008 Pan-Pacific Championship, Men’s Island Soccer Organization, $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hawaii Soccer Clubs, Soccer Players From Hawaii, Soccer Venues in Hawaii, Brian Ching, Aloha Stadium, 2008 Pan-Pacific Championship, Kupono Low, Zach Scott, Kenji Treschuk, Duke Hashimoto, Team Hawaii, Men’s Island Soccer Organization, War Memorial Stadium, Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium, Hawaii Tsunami. Excerpt: The Hawaii Tsunami were a soccer club that competed in the United Soccer Leagues from 1994 to 1997. The club was based in Honolulu, Hawaii .Year-by-year Year: Division: League: Reg. Season: Playoffs: Open Cup A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Team Hawaii was a soccer team based out of Honolulu that played in the NASL . The team only lasted one year, 1977. Their home field was Aloha Stadium . Previous to Hawai’i, the team played as the San Antonio Thunder . After leaving Hawai’i, the franchise became known as the Tulsa Roughnecks .1977 Roster Last updated 20 April 2009 . Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. item No.: Position: Player No.: Position: Player Year-by-year Year: League: W: L: T: Pts: Reg. Season: Playoffs Notes A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at item Tournament details item Host country: United States item Dates: February 20 – February 23 item Teams: 4 (from 2 confederations) … |
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Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010 $143 In the modern era sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalisation. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations and global markets that have re-shaped national and trans-national cultures in the later twentieth century.The book focuses on the emergence and expansion of media markets; high-performance sport’s transformation by, and effects upon, Cold War dynamics and relations, and the implications of the Treaty of Rome for an emerging European identity in sport as in other areas (for example, the influence of soccer’s governing body in Europe, UEFA, and its club and international competitions). It traces the connections between the forces of ideological division, economic growth, leisure consumption, European integration and the development of European sport, and examines the role of sport in the changing relationship between Europe and the US.Illuminating a key moment in global cultural history, this book is important reading for any student or scholar working in international studies, modern history or sport. |
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Sport in Ancient Times (Praeger Series on the Ancient World) $17.24 Crowther offers a fascinating look at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilizations in the ancient world. He not only probes the games themselves, but explores the ways in which athletics figured into cultural arenas that extended beyond physical prowess to military associations, rituals, status, and politics. Sport in Ancient Times has four distinct parts: the Prehistoric Age, historic Greece, ancient Italy, and the Byzantine Empire. Beginning with the earliest civilizations, Crowther examines the military and recreational aspects of sports in prehistoric Egypt, with brief references to other river-valley cultures in Sumeria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. He looks at the rituals of Cretan bull-leaping and boxing in the Bronze Age, the high status of sports in Mycenaean Greece, and the funeral games in the Trojan War as described by the epic poet Homer.In what he terms the historic period, Crowther examines the significance of the ancient Olympic Games, the events of Greek athletics, and the attitude of other civilizations (notably Rome) towards them. He attempts to discover to what extent the Romans believed in the famous ideal of Juvenal, a sound mind in a sound body, and discusses the significance of the famous Baths not only for sport, but also for culture and society. He likewise explores the Roman emphasis on spectator sports and the use of gladiatorial contests and chariot racing for political purposes (the concept of bread and games). The section on the Byzantine Empire focuses, notably, on chariot racing and the riots at sporting contests—riots reminiscent of crowd violence in modern sports such as soccer.Crowther closes with perspectives that bring to life some of the issues revealed in previous chapters. These include a comparison of the social status and significance of a famous Olympic athlete (Milo), a Roman gladiator (Hermes), and a Byzantine chariot racer (Porphyrius). He also addresses the changing role of women in |
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Sports Clubs Established In 1874 $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sydney Swans, Newport Rfc, Coventry R.f.c., Swansea Rfc, Sportfreunde Stuttgart, A.c. Fanfulla 1874, Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club, Westmount Rugby Club, Usk Rfc, Belmont Cricket Club. Excerpt: Associazione Calcio Fanfulla 1874 is an Italian football club located in Lodi , Lombardy . The club name comes after Bartolomeo Fanfulla from Lodi , an Italian knight who took part to the challenge of Barletta in 1503.Fanfulla, one of the oldest football and sports clubs in Italy, was founded on October 18, 1874 as a multisports club under the denomination Società Lodigiana di Ginnastica e Scherma (Lodi club of gymnastics and fencing ), and its football department was founded in 1908. Fanfulla played 13 Serie B leagues during the 1940s and the 1950s, and now plays in Eccellenza . Its colors are white and black .Honours Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Belmont Cricket Club was one of the four chief cricket clubs in Philadelphia that played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I . It was founded in 1874 in west Philadelphia and was disbanded in 1914. Bart King, arguably America’s greatest cricketer during its golden age from 1890 to 1914 played for Belmont from 1893-1913. Another famous American cricketer, English born Cecil Hurditch, played for Belmont on his return from playing cricket for the Santa Monica Cricket Club in Southern California in 1912.In 1913 Hurditch introduced soccer to the club members. Ref: David Sentance, Cricket in America 1710-2000.See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Coventry Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in the city of Coventry , England . In 2008/09, the team finished 9th in National Division One . The club enjoyed national |
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Sports Venues In Greensboro, North Carolina $8.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Greensboro Coliseum, World War Memorial Stadium, Newbridge Bank Park, Fleming Gymnasium, Macpherson Stadium, North Carolina, Uncg Soccer Stadium. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Greensboro Coliseum – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The hockey history of Greensboro began in 1959, when the Greensboro Generals of the Eastern Hockey League arrived and competed in that league until it folded in 1973; the team moved to the Southern Hockey League for four seasons until that league too ceased operations in January 1977. Greensboro hockey’s modern era began with the establishment of the Greensboro Monarchs of the East Coast Hockey League, who played there from 198990 to 19941995. When the American Hockey League expanded southward in 1995, it invited Greensboro to join; the new team took the Monarchs nickname, but attempted to draw a more regional fan base by labeling themselves the Carolina Monarchs. When the Carolina Hurricanes announced their move from Hartford, Connecticut in 1997 (when they were known as the Hartford Whalers), they leased the Coliseum for two years while waiting for the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina to be completed. Subjected to ticket price increases and unwilling to support a team that was destined for Raleigh, Greensboro hockey fans rarely filled the Coliseum for Hurricane games; during the 199899 season, the team curtained off most of the upper deck for home games in an effort to artificially create scarcity in the ticket market, force would-be attendees to purchase higher-priced tickets, and hide what national media mocked as “Green Acres” of empty seats. Once the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (now the RBC Center) was completed and the Hurricanes moved out, the plan was that the Monarc… More: |
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Sports Venues in San Francisco, California: Kezar Stadium, Harding Park Golf Club, War Memorial Gymnasium, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kezar Stadium, Harding Park Golf Club, War Memorial Gymnasium, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Kezar Pavilion, Boxer Stadium, Rams Stadium. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Kezar Stadium – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1922, the San Francisco Park Commission accepted a $100,000 gift from the estate of Mary Kezar. The gift was intended to build a memorial in honor of Kezar’s mother and uncles who were pioneers in the area. After the City and County of San Francisco appropriated an additional $200,000 the stadium was built in a year. Dedication ceremonies were held on May 2, 1925, and featured a two-mile footrace between Ville Ritola and Paavo Nurmi of Finland, who were two of the greatest runners of their day. The stadium had many uses in the 1930s. In addition to track and field competitions, Kezar Stadium also hosted motorcycle racing, auto racing, rugby, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, boxing, cricket and football. The stadium was also the home field of several local schools such as Santa Clara University, University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College of California and the now defunct San Francisco Polytechnic High School. In 1926 the Stadium also became the home of the East-West Shrine Game. In the 1928 city championship game between San Francisco Polytechnic and Lowell High School a crowd of over 50,000 people saw the matchup between the bitter cross-town rivals. That game still holds attendance records for a high school football game in Northern California. Stanford University played four of its home football games at Kezar, one in 1928 and three in 1942. Kezar Stadium was also the home to two different professional football teams. The San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders both began their existence at the stadium. The Raiders played a… More: |
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Sterling Point Books: The Great Escape: Tunnel to Freedom $6.95 A spine-tingling, suspenseful true story of escape during World War II.Spring, 1943; Stalag Luft III, Germany: every prisoner in the Nazi camps had one thought in mind—to get out. The organization was in place, with men digging hidden passageways and squads dispersing yellow sand in the middle of soccer scrimmages. Forgers worked to create false travel documents. Tailors stitched up civilian suits from blankets. Their goal? To break out of an “escape-proof” German prison camp and raise havoc throughout the German countryside. The stakes were high, however: anyone caught would be executed.Author Mike Meserole keeps the tension high in this newly-written tale filled with daring and danger. Kids will hang on to every word. |
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Sub Rosa $0.99 Genius put to evil intent. A tale of larceny and revenge born of war and reprisal that sweeps over four countries on three continents. A form of terrorism threatens national security. All unraveled on San Francisco Bay due to a chance encounter at an amateur soccer game. |
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Team Sports $39.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ice Hockey, Netball, Australian Rules Football, Field Hockey, Rugby Football, Ultimate, Bandy, Canadian Football, Rugby Union, Bobsleigh, Team Handball, Korfball, Kabaddi, Gaelic Football, Water Polo, Lacrosse, Synchronized Swimming, Tug of War, Roller Hockey, Curling, Floorball, Quidditch, Hurling, Rugby League, Shinty, Shuttlecock, Softball, Camogie, Rounders, Paralympic Association Football, Guts, Cricket, Field Lacrosse, Squad Number, Futsal, Roller Derby, Contesting, List of Fictional Sports Teams, Native American Mascot Controversy, U.s. All Star Federation, Cross Country Running, Russian Fist Fighting, Inline Hockey, List of Sports Team Names and Mascots Derived From Indigenous Peoples, Sepak Takraw, Valencian Pilota, Underwater Hockey, Pesäpallo, Ringette, Newcomb Ball, Beach Soccer, Medley Swimming, Hurling Outside Ireland, Inner Tube Water Polo, Finnish Skittles, Jugger, British Bulldogs, Eton Fives, Harrow Football, Cycle Polo, Broomball, Tchoukball, Crocker, Peteca, Hardcourt Bike Polo, Jianzi, Dodgeball, Ifc Tugs, Rogaining, Pallone, Wheelchair Basketball, Harpastum, Moscow Broomball, Underwater Rugby, Tent Pegging, Bladderball, Punchball, Hailes, Composite Rules Shinty-Hurling, Wallyball, Indoor Field Hockey, Goalball, Wok Racing, Goaltimate, Horseball, British Baseball, Cowboy Polo, Dribbling, Ceremonial First Puck, Indoor Rules, Ulama, Bossaball, Vintage Base Ball, Throwball, History of Hurling, Segway Polo, Angleball, Oină, Stoolball, Stickball, Bolas Criollas, Schtick, Powerchair Football, Biribol, Prisoner Ball, Quota Players, Cammag, Prison Handball, Wheelchair Curling, Trugo, Kho Kho, Beach Rugby, Danish Longball, Foot Hockey, Hand Cricket, Volata, Intramural Softball, Hot Box, World Adult Kickball Association, Frisian… More: |
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The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary $75 The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial. There was almost constant bickering among the American team and the British officials. Because of the controversies, the 1908 Olympics have been termed "The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush," referring to the site of the Olympic Stadium. Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting. A great deal of new information has been discovered by the authors, and this work gives complete results for all events.The information presented is based primarily on 1908 sources. For the first time, definitive word on the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are available for all of the 1908 Olympic events, including boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, field hockey, lacrosse, polo, raquets, swimming, lawn tennis, tug-of-war, weightlifting, wrestling and yachting, among other sports. A series of appendices include rarely seen information about the many controversies surrounding the Games. |
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The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless $18.95 Who stays late at the office when Mom leaves for a soccer match? Whose dollars pay for the tax credits, childcare benefits, and school vouchers that only parents can utilize? Who is forced to take those undesirable weekend business trips that Dad refuses? The answer: Adults without children — most of them women — have shouldered more than their share of the cost of family-friendly America. Until now. “Equal Pay for Equal Work” is one of the foundations of modern American work life. But workers without children do not reap the same rewards as do their colleagues who are parents. Instead, as veteran journalist Elinor Burkett reveals, the past decade has seen the most massive redistribution of wealth since the War on Poverty — this time not from rich to poor but from nonparents, no matter how modest their means, to parents, no matter how affluent. Parents today want their child and their Lexus, too — which accounts for the new culture of parental privilege that Burkett aptly calls “the baby boon.” Burkett reports from the front lines of the workplace: from the hallowed newsroom of The New York Times to the floor of a textile factory in North Carolina to a hospital in Boston. She exposes a simmering backlash against perks for parents, from workers who are losing their tempers and fighting for their rights. She spells out how tax breaks for families with six-figure incomes are not available to childless people earning half as much. And she tells the dramatic story of how pro-family conservatives and feminists became strange bedfellows on the issue of pro-family rights, leading to an increase in workplace and government entitlements for parents — at the same time as the childless poor lost their public benefits. Americans are on a demographic collision course between the growing numbers of mothers in the workforce and the swelling ranks of a new interest group: childless adults. Armed with hard data and |
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The Heir Chronicles Box Set $24.99 Three boys, three talismans, one destiny. In this page-turning trilogy, Cinda Williams Chima explores what it means to be different, what’s worth fighting for, and what’s worth dying for…THE WARRIOR HEIR Jack lives an unremarkable life in Trinity, Ohio. Only his daily medicine and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from other teenagers at his high school. Until one day, Jack skips his medicine and finds himself stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. He feels incredible – until he nearly kills another player on the soccer field.Soon, Jack learns the startling truth: he is Weirlind, part of a magical underground society of wizards, warriors, and enchantors. Weir’s mighty, feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose determine power through The Game, a modern-day gladiator battle in which warriors from each house fight to the death. The winning house rules the Weir. But Jack finds out that he’s not just another member of Weirlind—he’s one of the last warriors—and both houses are scouting for a player.THE WIZARD HEIRSixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. Unfortunately it’s not his attitude that’s the problem. It’s the trail of magical accidents—lately, disasters—that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained—and now that the only person who could protect him has died, his powers are escalating out of control. At the Havens, a secluded boys’ school in Maine, Seph meets headmaster Gregory Leicester, who promises to initiate him into his order of wizards. But Seph soon learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students’ powers to serve his own malicious agenda. This wizard war is one that Seph may not have the strength to survive.THE |
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The Shadow of the Sun $2.88 Among his fellow journalists, Ryszard Kapuscinski has earned the reputation of being in all the wrong places at just the right times. “If Kapuscinski was there,” wrote Stephen Schiff enviously, “you knew the pot was about to boil over.” His first landing in tropical Africa was typically momentous: He arrived in 1957, “the great year” in which Ghana’s independence sparked independence movements around the continent. The Polish foreign correspondent has returned to sub-Saharan Africa numerous times, traveling extensively, conscientiously avoiding palace receptions and self-congratulatory ministers. Readers of his Imperium and The Soccer War will expect what others will discover: Kapuscinski’s reportage borders on great literature. |
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The Short Course in Beer $4.99 This is the book for everyone who wants to be a beer expert or at least sound like one. Warm, funny and elegantly written, it just might change your life. Far-ranging in scope and written with wit and charm, this guide provides a global perspective on one of the world’s most ancient and popular beverages, including how it is made, how to serve and taste it, where to find the best, and what foods to serve with it. With tongue in cheek, the author examines beer’s historic connections to the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, and modern-day soccer riots. He also candidly discusses the effects of alcohol on the body and the brain. |
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The Soccer War $1.99 Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. |
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The Viking Tradition: 100 Years of Sport at Berry College (College History Series) $21.99 In 1902, Martha Berry founded the Industrial School for Boys to educate the children of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and in 1909 the school admitted women. The institution grew from a mountain industrial school to a two-year college in its first twenty-four years, became a four-year college in 1930, and has since become one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the South.This volume portrays, in word and image, the role of sports at Berry College throughout its 100-year history. Situating athletics within the social and cultural life of the college, the book includes both intramural and intercollegiate sport, and traces the evolution of the Viking tradition as it both parallels and reflects the development of sport in the United States. The story begins with the recreational and leisure activities of the early years of the school and traces the continuation of the sporting spirit from the days of the “Silver and the Blue” through the post-war “Blue Jacket” tradition, and ends with the Viking years of the last four decades. Of notable interest in the book is the development of the women’s sports program, which has brought four national titles to the college; the importance of soccer to the college; the well-rounded intercollegiate program, which currently fields teams in seven sports; and an excellent intramural program. |
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Tommy Moroney $55 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tommy Moroney (10 November 1923, Cork, Ireland – 2 May 1981) is a former Irish soccer and rugby union player. Moroney played soccer for Cork United, West Ham United, Evergreen United and Ireland. In 1949 he was a member of the Ireland team that defeated England 2-0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first non-UK team to beat England at home. He also represented both Cork Constitution and Munster at rugby union.Together with Frank O’Farrell, Moroney was a member of the successful Cork United team of the 1940s, helping them win several League of Ireland titles. A brilliant all-round sportsman, Moroney also played rugby union for Cork Constitution, helping them win the Munster Senior Cup three times. He also represented Munster, but with the Five Nations Championship suspended because of the Second World War, he never got the chance to play for the Ireland national rugby union team. |
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Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer: A Global Exploration $125 Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural specificity. Naturally therefore, the game is a complex representative of minorities’ status especially in countries where minorities play a crucial role in political, social, cultural or economic life. The question is also important since in many nations success in sports like soccer has been used as an instrument for assimilation or to promote an alternative brand of nationalism. Thus, Jewish teams in pre-Second World War Europe were set up to promote the idea of a muscular Jewish identity. Similarly, in apartheid South Africa, soccer became the game of the black majority since it was excluded from the two principal games of the country – rugby and cricket. In India, on the other hand, the Muslim minorities under colonial rule appropriated soccer to assert their community-identity.The book examines why in certain countries, minorities chose to take up the sport while in others they backed away from participating in the game or, alternatively, set up their own leagues and practised self-exclusion. The book examines European countries like the Netherlands, England and France, the USA, Africa, Australia and the larger countries of Asia – particularly India.This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society. |
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Zeitung (Frankreich) $19.99 Kapitel: Le Canard Enchaîné, Liste Französischer Zeitungen, le Monde Diplomatique, 20 Minuten, Libération, France Soir, le Figaro, Dernières Nouvelles D’alsace, Midi Libre, L’équipe, Vorwärts, Courrier International, Nice-Matin, L’humanité, Berria, La Tribune, Les Échos, La Gazette de Berlin, le Journal Du Dimanche, le Parisien, Ouest-France, La Dépêche Du Midi, Présent. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: L’Équipe (French for “the team”) is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sports, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of football (soccer), rugby, motorsports and cycling. Its ancestor was L’Auto, a general sports paper, whose name reflected not any narrow interest but the excitement of the time in car racing. L’Auto originated the Tour de France cycling stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster. The race leader’s yellow jersey (maillot jaune) was instituted in 1919, probably to reflect the distinctive yellow newsprint on which L’Auto was published. De Dion on one of his company’s early products.L’Auto and therefore L’Équipe owed its life to a 19th century French scandal involving soldier Alfred Dreyfus – the Dreyfus affair. With overtones of anti-semitism and post-war paranoia, Dreyfus was accused of selling secrets to France’s old enemy, the Germans. As different sides of society insisted he was guilty or innocent – he was eventually cleared but only after rigged trials had banished him to an island prison camp – the split came close to civil war and still have their echoes in modern French society. France’s largest sports paper, Le Vélo, mixed sports coverage with political comment. Its editor, Pierre Giffard, believed Dreyfus innocent and said so, leading to acrid disagreement with his main advertisers. Among them were the automobile-maker the Comte de Dion and the industrialists Adolphe |
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